WorksheetsHistory of Internet
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who designed the X.25 protocol?
NSFNET
National Science Foundation
Domain Name System
Rémi Després
When did commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerge in the United States?
1986
1995
1989
1970s
Which organizations provided interconnectivity with the national supercomputing centers in the United States?
Sprint, MCI and AT&T
X.25 protocol
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Rémi Després and others
Who is the British computer scientist who is credited with creating the World Wide Web?
Steve Jobs
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Tim Berners-Lee
What technology was responsible for the revolutionary impact of the Internet on culture, commerce, and technology in the mid-1990s?
Satellite communication
Analog modems
Fiber optic cables
Wireless routers
Who developed the idea of a universal network?
Paul Baran
J. C. R. Licklider
Robert Taylor
Donald Davies
What technology did ARPANET adopt for packet switching?
Message blocks
Time-sharing
Data network
Packet switching
Where was the host-to-host protocol specified for ARPANET?
` Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
RAND Corporation
IPTO
UCLA
Who pioneered a simplified end-to-end approach to internetworking at the IRIA?
Leonard Kleinrock
Louis Pouzin
Vint Cerf
Bob Metcalfe
Which protocols evolved from the research of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974?
Ethernet and PARC Universal Packet
ARPA projects
CYCLADES project
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)
